My afternoon at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011

Earlier this month, I decided to have
my family attend AWA with me, which is the first anime convention I
went to since NakaKon at Kansas City. For those wondering, Anime
Weekend Atlanta is a 3-day event that starts every end of September
to early October.

So, what happened back there?

I ran into many, many cosplayers
throughout the trek to a Sports Bar for lunch (My dad's burger
cravings took a toll on him, which was why that stop happened. The
food was delicious anyways!). After lunch, we traveled around until
we reached some of the food stands as well as the con's giant
shopping area. My folks allowed me to look around for a period of
time. Good thing I was alone too, because I ran into the Hentai
section after about 5 minutes into shopping. No further detail on
that except that I didn't get anything from there, otherwise things
would've been screwed up between my family for obvious reasons. The
same thing went with the live-action horror films that I ran into a
minute after the Hentai section. (I made the grave mistake of seeing
the Japanese version of the first “Ring” with my folks, and I've
seen more of these films that didn't manage to give me nightmares.
Well, except for Ichi The Killer. That one did.) The area was
as swamped as the hallway with fellow shoppers, panelists and
cosplayers.

Here's what I also saw...

A Pokemon-themed panel complete with a Pikachu Car.

An Q&A Panel

Another Hentai Panel (That time, it was just video games and manga)

A J-Pop booth and a K-Pop booth

Items Obtained

While running into those things, I did
manage to score myself some merchandise, and some of it was
discounted (Just my wonderful luck! <3 ) I bought a wall scroll of
Trapnest (One of the rock bands revealed in the “Nana” series), a
silver Kingdom Key necklace (Sora's Keyblade as a pedant), an T-Shirt
and the first box set of the remastered re-release of Revolutionary
Girl Utena (Saw it from my on demand service five years ago and loved
it).

The Cosplay

Sorry about the quality since some were
on my phone and others were on my DSi since my phone ran out of
battery juice. Anyway, I got stopped by a cop, barely escaped Panty
and Stocking's grasp, found a catgirl at one of the food stands and
almost got bit by a vampire couple but survived it all. Pics says it
did happen.

Overall

After nearly causing my head to explode
out of all the awesomeness that happened, I went out when it was time
and left with all my merch and some food from the stands with a
smile. Definitely would like to visit it again! <3

Sounds like a good time. I wish I had seen that Trapnest wall scroll! I told myself I wasn't buying any posters/scrolls since I have like 10 of them (not all anime) gathering dust in my closest, but I would have purchased that one.